Sahid Nahim, host of "The Bloom Show," interviewed the GM & Editor in Chief of Thursd., Arnold Wittkamp on Tuesday, June 14th, 2022. Thursd.com is a floral meetup spot where they allow floral industry folks to gather in their largest international floral platform, and let the people from the industry discover each other. They allow floral fans to decide what to watch & what to follow.

The second World Ornamental Horticulture Summit, organized by the International Association of Horticultural Producers, will take place on 28th September 2022 in Almere, the Netherlands, as part of the 74th AIPH annual congress.

Visitors to the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum will have the opportunity to witness one of the most extraordinary phenomena in the plant world when a rare corpse flower opens its enormous, foul-smelling inflorescence sometime in the next few days.

The plant, also known as a titan arum, has been growing for the past decade in the UCSC Greenhouses and is now flowering for the first time. Its inflorescence, which will bear hundreds of small flowers, is already nearly five feet tall and growing several inches every day.

The American Floral Endowment has awarded 20 students with scholarships totaling $54,400.

Star Roses and Plants will present its new 2023 plant varieties at Cultivate’22, July 16–19 in Columbus, Ohio. To get an inside look at these new varieties and chat with experts, visit the Star Roses and Plants booth #3217.

Marco Groot of Hilverda De Boer USA joined The Bloom Show to talk about how the company built an extensive network of logistical solutions to deliver farm fresh flowers quickly and directly to their clients since the founding of their company in 1909.